<p>Need to decide by tomorrow 9AM.
Pre-med.</p>
<p>did he receive the decision by e-mail or did he check the pathway?</p>
<p>Other choices?</p>
<p>Congratulations! Hope to see you in August!!</p>
<p>Go for it if your son liked the school and if the finances work out. It’s awesome for pre med. My son decided to enroll this fall and couldn’t be happier with his decision.</p>
<p>He got a phone call first (went to voice mail because it was school class time), then he checked pathway after school.
He accepted for now. Final decision in 5 days.</p>
<p>Before getting this news, he committed to UT Austin (Biology/premed). (We live in Dallas area).</p>
<p>^ Congratulations to your son! My son can’t wait to set foot on the WUSTL campus again and start the next phase of his life. He will be majoring in Classics and also doing all the courses for the premed curriculum.</p>
<p>I got off from the waitlist too! Yesterday afternoon!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got off of the waitlist! What are your majors?</p>
<p>My daughter also got a phone call yesterday afternoon from Wash U that offered her admission. She has currently committed to Cornell. She plans to do premed. Is Cornell or Wash U better for premed? We have visited both schools. The main concern we have about Wash U is that a student needs to take subway from Wash U to the medical center and the area seems a little unsafe for a girl.</p>
<p>I think Wash U is definitely better for pre-med, although both schools have great programs. I also don’t think that area is unsafe.</p>
<p>WUSTL is a good school but I wouldn’t advise choosing WUSTL over Cornell. Cornell has a ton more prestige than WUSTL because its in the ivy league and doesn’t manipulate its admissions statistics to improve its ranking, which WUSTL is notorious for doing. Furthermore, the reason your daughter got wait listed at WUSTL is that she was over qualified. At the end of the day though, its a personal decision.</p>
<p>The entirety of vickramreddy’s post is nonsense, save for the last sentence.</p>
<p>Sndenm: which school does your daughter like better? If finances are equal at both, go with that. Seriously. You really can’t compare it at this level.
(For the record, the metro is not “unsafe for a girl” to get from the Danforth campus to the med school).</p>
<p>I’m a little bit offended. My post was not nonsense. Cornell is hands down more prestigious than WashU; this is essentially a fact. Ask someone if they’ve heard of WashU and then ask someone if they’ve heard of Cornell…be it an employer or a guy on the street the person probably thinks highly of Cornell but has no idea what WUSTL is. Prestige should not be the only factor when picking a school but it certainly should be a factor among many when deciding…because it does matter.</p>
<p>And WashU is commonly known as “wait list you” because it wait lists soo many overqualified applicants in order to do yield protection.</p>
<p>sndenm, I take the subway train to the WUSTL med school quite often, and I feel it is pretty safe. There are two subway stops on the undergraduate campus and one on the medical campus, so you don’t have to enter unsafe areas. It is a direct trip and pretty convenient, although I understand your concern. I am also a girl.</p>
<p>@vickramreddy but it’s definitely not all about prestige! Cornell is a great school with a fair amount of prestige, and it is an Ivy League and all, but honestly WashU has good enough of a reputation for being a great pre-med school that I would choose it over Cornell for pre-med any day. </p>
<p>Oh and congratulations to the people who got in from the waitlist! 
still waiting myself if they’re not done admitting yet, but my hopes aren’t very high since WashU basically waitlists EVERYONE.</p>
<p>I agree with the others - WUSTL is much better than Cornell for pre-med. The environment of the school, the people, and the opportunities are much better at WUSTL. And the grade deflation and weather make Cornell even worse.</p>
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<p>Again, COMPLETE and total rubbish. And you have 0 proof of this. Do they waitlist people who don’t show interest? Absolutely. They have to. There aren’t enough spots for everyone who applies. But there is no one that is “overqualified” for WashU (save maybe 1 or 2 a year, and the people who are don’t waste their time complaining on CC or they were given massive merit scholarships). </p>
<p>And if you think you are, you may want to get your ego in check. WashU matches other top schools every year on average ACT/SAT/GPA/etc. Also, to state that WashU waitlists overqualified applicants is to point blank insult every student that was accepted.</p>
<p>As for who has heard of it? A lot of people I know could only list H/Y/P when asked to name ivy’s. It’s an athletic coalition. It does not automatically mean “all ivy’s are superior to all other schools in every discipline.” Heh. I even know someone with a graduate degree from Dartmouth who didn’t even know Dartmouth was an Ivy. </p>
<p>Especially when discussing pre-med. The pre-med program at WashU is phenomenal, and many would argue it’s better than Cornell’s. </p>
<p>But, to get back to the point of the original question, when it comes to schools of this caliber, seriously, just pick the one you think you’ll be happiest at.</p>
<p>Thank you Johnson181. Completely agree with everything that you said.</p>
<p>sndemn, I wouldn’t consider the surrounding areas to be particularly dangerous. I’ll echo those who suggest that while washu might have a better pre-med program, it ultimately comes down to where your daughter will be happier - those are 2 great options and you can’t go wrong either way.</p>
<p>Edit: @000ooo000ooo The weather here in St. Louis hasn’t exactly been nice these past few weeks. Unless you like cold and rainy, that is, hahaha. P.S. What a username!</p>